I was devoted to Tom Collin, a man whose ambition I once admired. I gave up my career, my future, my entire identity for him. I was the perfect wife while he built his empire. But when he reached the top, I became invisible.
Then I found him with her—his college ex, the woman who’d abandoned him when he had nothing. When I confronted him, the man I married vanished, replaced by a monster whose hands left bruises on my skin.
I was finally ready to leave. But I never got the chance. He left our five-year-old daughter, Joy, alone for his mistress. And in his absence, my baby was murdered.
I buried my child, and with her, the weak woman I used to be. In a haze of grief, I let a handsome stranger hold me for one night in Italy—a single moment of oblivion.
Five years later, I live for one purpose: Revenge. Tom Collin will pay for what he did. He has no idea the woman now standing before him. But my new boss… he might. The magnetic CEO of our rival company is the stranger from that night. And he doesn’t know he’s the father of my secret daughter.


The car door slammed shut, wrapping us in blessed silence away from the cemetery's gloom. Through the tinted windows, the outside world became muted and distant. I settled back into the leather seat and let a slow smile spread across my lips, the kind that builds from deep satisfaction.


Everything had gone exactly as planned.


I could still picture Tom's face when the whispers started, when Camilla's eyes went wide with shock and her mouth fell open. The way every guest turned toward him like sharks smelling blood, all staring at the man who thought he could keep his secret visit to me hidden forever.


Chapter 49 - Chapter 49 Perfect Execution